Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Two guesses:
>
> - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen
>   this myself, but I'm not exactly why this is, or how it can be
>   circumvented (other than booting from another device).

Yes.  It wasn't always this way.

You can make a gruby boot floppy and from its command line, install
to the MBR.  You might have to mess around with storing the grub
files in /boot/boot/grub instead of /boot/grub or something; see
the grub info or just try it both ways.
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